Excerpts from Satanic Verses author’s testimony about harrowing knife attack - In his own words, author Salman Rushdie describes the moments when a stranger rushed at him on stage in western New York

On the witness stand, Salman Rushdie described the frenzied moments when a masked man rushed at him on a stage and repeatedly slashed him with a knife.

Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humor as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.